Abingdon, MD
An Abingdon man who was facing 100 years in a state prison for
possession of
child pornography will instead serve 18 months at the
county jail.
Henry Vernon Hammen III, 31, of the 3200 block of
Rock Creek Court, whose trial in Harford County Circuit Court was
scheduled to start Monday, instead reported to the Harford County
Detention Center to begin his sentence, the day after he returned from
vacationing with his family in Virginia, according to court records.
Hammen
was indicted in February on 20 counts of possession of
child
pornography, which carries a sentence of up to five years for each
count.
Boston, MA
A
Whitinsville
lawyer, who is also a
Boy Scout leader and part-time
middle school teacher, is arrested at his home Tuesday morning and
charged with possessing
child pornography and
enticing children.
Orlando, FL
A
man suspected of downloading
child pornography was arrested after he
brought his
computer in to be serviced by
Best Buy technicians in
Kissimmee.
Employees at the West Osceola Parkway
Best Buy called
deputies when
computer technicians who were repairing 67-year-old
George
Michael Muschal's computer found
photos they thought were
child
pornography.
Deputies investigated and found more than 250
pornographic images on
Muschal's
computer. About 38 of those
pictures have been confirmed to be
child pornography involving girls
under 12.
East St. Louis, MO
A Belleville man admitted Tuesday to exchanging
nude pictures with an
11-year old.
Jack
C. Baldwin Jr., 46, pleaded guilty in federal court in East St.Louis to
one count each of
enticement of a minor, transfer of
obscene matter to a
minor and transportation of
child pornography. He could face up to a
life sentence on the charges at his sentencing Dec. 3.
Authorities say Baldwin and the
child exchanged the
pictures of each other over three days in Dec. 2011.
The
exchanges were caught by
Project Safe Childhood, a U.S. justice
department initiative launched in 2006 to stop
sexual exploitation and
abuse of
children.
Philadelphia, PA
Tattoo
artist
Walter Meyerle was found guilty Tuesday in Bucks County Court of
170 counts of
sex crimes against 15
children ages 4 to 17, possession
of
child pornography, and plotting to break out of the county prison.
Meyerle, 35, of Falls
Township, will be sentenced after a mandatory 90-day s
exual-predator
evaluation. He faces a lifetime in prison, said Assistant District
Attorney Jennifer Schorn, who handled the case.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Two men have been charged with possessing
child pornography by Ridge Meadows
RCMP.
Terrence
Little, 41, and
Kenneth Storey, 56, have both had their first court
appearances, and are currently on conditional releases awaiting their
next court appearances.
RCMP
initiated charges of possession of
child pornography against each man
separately. They do not appear to know each other and are not known by
police.
An Adams County man was sentenced to 20 years in prison on a
child pornography conviction.
James R. Howard,
of Peebles, was ordered to spend 240 months in federal prison after he
was found guilty of possessing more than 2,400
images and
videos of
child pornography depicting
violence against
children younger than
10
years old.
West
Union
police began
investigating Howard after they received a complaint
from a resident and seized a
computer from him in November.
Forensic analysis of the
computer uncovered the cache of
child pornography, prosecutors said.
Paul June, a
52-year-old Endicott resident, is under arrest, accused of possessing
child pornography. June was arrested by the US Marshals Regional
Fugitive Task Force and arraigned Friday in Binghamton Federal Court.
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